Dr Martin Graham
Research Fellow
Martin Graham became a researcher in the area of Information Visualisation at Edinburgh Napier after completing his PhD on the subject here in 2002. He has worked on several projects in this area (OPAL, TaxVis, SEEK, VIPER), most of which involve the visualisation of biological data (but not all).
Areas of Expertise 
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Information visualisation is the use of enhanced Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) to communicate and interact with complex data sets such as social networks, multiattribute tables, and financial data. Pages of text and numbers are not the most effective way to communicate or understand information.
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The institute's expertise in software engineering encompasses the entire development lifecycle, and we focus on the approaches and tools to improve the engineering process of both emerging and widely used software systems. Increasing the productivity and improving the quality of software remains a...
Contact
m.graham@napier.ac.uk
+44 (0)131 455 2749
Room C51
Merchiston Campus
10 Colinton Road
Edinburgh
EH10 5DT
Edinburgh
EH10 5DT
Recent Projects
Developing statistical and visualisation software for the visual analysis of games meta-data
Summary: Visualisation techniques have been recognised as one of the major directions in future research when handling and querying biological data, offering the ability to find patterns and outliers in data which traditional query interfaces cannot match.
PhD Project Involvement
Paul Shaw (PhD 2008-)
Using a mathematical graph framework for visualization of inheritance patterns in plant pedigrees.
Alan Melville (MPhil 2007-)
An investigation into visual graph comparison. While much work has been done in the area of visualization for analysis of graphs, relatively little research exists into how best to use visualization for comparing graphs.
Recent Publications
Thomson, A., Graham, M., Kennedy, J. (2013). Pianola - Visualization of Multivariate Time-Series Security Event Data. In: Proceedings of IV2013. London, UK.
Graham, M., Kennedy, J., Paterson, T., Law, A. (2012). Redeeming Pedigree Data with an Interactive Error Cleaning Visualisation. In: Tortora, G., Levialdi, S., Tucci, M. (Eds.) Proceedings of Advanced Visual Interfaces 2012. (pp. 741-744). ACM New York, NY, USA.
Paterson, T., Graham, M., Kennedy, J., Law, A. (2012). VIPER: a visualisation tool for exploring inheritance inconsistencies in genotyped pedigrees. BMC Bioinformatics, 13 (Suppl 8)(S5).
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